21st century learning is summarized in The Media Collage by Jason Ohler
Published by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Educational Leadership/March 2009. Jason Ohler is a speaker; digital humanist; author of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity (Corwin Press, 2007); and President's Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Alaska, 1108 F. St., Juneau Alaska 99801; 907-796-6427: jason.ohIer@uas.alaska.edu
Literacy Camp should focus on reading and writing and understanding words. The new digital literacy includes being able to read and write in multiple forms of media and integrate them into a meaningful whole; including math literacy, research literacy, and citizenship literacy to name a few. The new literacy requires students to read and write narrative in the media forms of the day (including text, sound, graphic, and moving images). These media forms have coalesced into a single narrative, as seen on web pages, blogs, or digital stories. Students need to be able to use these media collectively as well as individually. Students need to be literate in the context of Web 2.0 social networking concepts: like collaborating and hands-on creation of persuasive media content. Teachers need to become advanced managers of student talent, time and productivity. To achieve this:
1. There has to be a shift from text centrism to experiment fearlessly with media centrism (web page, digital story, wiki, blog, video, PowerPoint, games).
2. We must value writing and reading more than ever—synthesizing, clarifying, communicating, with visually differentiated text (bullets, boldface, breaks, boxes, beyond black and white, communicating the beginnings of content that hyperlink to the rest). We need to prepare students to write essays (expository writing) and to write blogs (focusing on prioritization, brevity and clarity). We have to prepare students to create digital stories, movies, and documentaries and we must ensure these literacy forms require clear, concise, and creative writing.
3. We have to adopt “art” as the next “R”.
4. We must blend traditional and emerging literacies (we must incorporate traditional forms of literacy with digital, art, oral, written, speaking and listening skills) when storytelling, narrating documents, making movies, PowerPoint presentations, games, and virtual realities.
5. We must harness the report and story continuum (reports convey data while stories convey emotions).
6. We must practice private and participatory social literacy (in the Web 2.0 spirit, express ourselves clearly as individuals, while merging our expression into the domain of public narrative).
7. We must develop literacy with digital tools and about digital tools: we must know when to use the correct digital tool and why this tool is appropriate
8. We must constantly pursue fluency.
21st century learning is summarized in The Media Collage by Jason Ohler
Published by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Educational Leadership/March 2009. Jason Ohler is a speaker; digital humanist; author of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity (Corwin Press, 2007); and President's Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Alaska, 1108 F. St., Juneau Alaska 99801; 907-796-6427: jason.ohIer@uas.alaska.eduLiteracy Camp should focus on reading and writing and understanding words. The new digital literacy includes being able to read and write in multiple forms of media and integrate them into a meaningful whole; including math literacy, research literacy, and citizenship literacy to name a few. The new literacy requires students to read and write narrative in the media forms of the day (including text, sound, graphic, and moving images). These media forms have coalesced into a single narrative, as seen on web pages, blogs, or digital stories. Students need to be able to use these media collectively as well as individually. Students need to be literate in the context of Web 2.0 social networking concepts: like collaborating and hands-on creation of persuasive media content. Teachers need to become advanced managers of student talent, time and productivity. To achieve this:
1. There has to be a shift from text centrism to experiment fearlessly with media centrism (web page, digital story, wiki, blog, video, PowerPoint, games).
2. We must value writing and reading more than ever—synthesizing, clarifying, communicating, with visually differentiated text (bullets, boldface, breaks, boxes, beyond black and white, communicating the beginnings of content that hyperlink to the rest). We need to prepare students to write essays (expository writing) and to write blogs (focusing on prioritization, brevity and clarity). We have to prepare students to create digital stories, movies, and documentaries and we must ensure these literacy forms require clear, concise, and creative writing.
3. We have to adopt “art” as the next “R”.
4. We must blend traditional and emerging literacies (we must incorporate traditional forms of literacy with digital, art, oral, written, speaking and listening skills) when storytelling, narrating documents, making movies, PowerPoint presentations, games, and virtual realities.
5. We must harness the report and story continuum (reports convey data while stories convey emotions).
6. We must practice private and participatory social literacy (in the Web 2.0 spirit, express ourselves clearly as individuals, while merging our expression into the domain of public narrative).
7. We must develop literacy with digital tools and about digital tools: we must know when to use the correct digital tool and why this tool is appropriate
8. We must constantly pursue fluency.